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Archives for April 2007

April 30, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Monday, April 30

April 30, 2007By Michael Cader

More Tenet There were Tenet stories (and responses) all over this weekend, as this week’s Time carries a serial. Tenet says that Vice President Cheney and his circle of supporters “wanted to be able to limit the Iraqis’ power and handpick those Iraqis who would participate” in the government after the initial phase of the war. “They never understood that, fundamentally, political control depends on the consent of the governed.” Time serial Time interview Among the many articles, Michiko Kakutani launched a pre-publication review on Saturday: “Alternately withholding and aggrieved, earnest and disingenuous, At the Center of the Storm is […]

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April 29, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch Weekly for Monday, April 30

April 29, 2007By Michael Cader

Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Lisa VanAuken writing as Lisa Dale’s THE LUCKY MOON, exploring the mysterious connectivity […]

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April 27, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Friday, April 27

April 27, 2007By Michael Cader

Tenet Coverage Begins As often happens, a NYT reporter walks into a store, and comes out with the embargoed George Tenet book (bought without a discount, “at retail price”). Calling it “by turns accusatory, defensive, and modestly self-critical,” the Times quotes Tenet as writing: “There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat.” Though there was that 2002 National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq’s weapons programs, which Tenet calls “one of the lowest moments of my seven-year tenure,” explaining that “in retrospect, we got it wrong partly because the truth […]

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April 26, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Thursday, April 26

April 26, 2007By Michael Cader

Please Note Lunch is being served early because it’s my 15th anniversary and we’re playing hooky for the rest of the day. Another Hollywood Agency Moves In on the Book Business The Gersh Agency is the latest film-world player to add a book division. It will be run out of Gersh’s NY office by Phyllis Wender, who ran Rosenstone/Wender (partner Howard Rosenstone died last year) and will bring agents Sonia Pabley and Susan Cohen with her. Co-president Bob Gersh tells Variety, “Most book agents know Phyllis, and her reputation and stature will dictate how the division will do business. We’ve […]

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April 25, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Wednesday, April 25

April 25, 2007By Michael Cader

Amazon Fools Them Again Wall Street was prepared for a lackluster Q1 earnings report from Amazon, and instead the e-tailer announced better than expected results, with sales of $3.02 billion, up 32 percent, and improved earnings of $145 million, up 38 percent from a year ago. International “media” sales of $1 billion (up 31 percent) have now finally surpassed US media sales of $990 million (up 21 percent), the culmination of a growing trend. Profits improved through a reduction in technology spending and a tax change. The company increased their guidance for the rest of the fiscal, now expecting sales […]

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April 24, 2007By Michael Cader

Lunch for Tuesday, April 24

April 24, 2007By Michael Cader

On Halberstam As you’ve probably read elsewhere, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author David Halberstam, 73, was killed in a car crash in Menlo Park, CA. Wire NYT Knopf Books Another Clinton Bill Clinton’s publisher Knopf will also issue Carl Bernstein’s biography of Hillary Clinton, A WOMAN IN CHARGE, this June, with an announced 350,000-copy first printing. Chairman Sonny Mehta says in the announcement, “I believe his book will stand as the most detailed, comprehensive, and revealing account we have of a woman who helped define one presidency and may well step into another.” Spokesman Paul Bogaards tells the NYT that […]

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